1. a. 'Revolution and Reaction'- Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two
revolutions occurred outside England that indirectly threatened the stability of the British
political and social systems. The French Revolution began on July 14, 1789, when a
group of French citizens stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison for political prisoners. During
the following weeks the revolutionaries approved a document called the Declaration of
Rights of Man, affirming the principles of 'liberty, equality, and fraternity.' France
became a constitutional monarchy. Revolutionary violence reached…
